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sc94597 on 28 March 2008
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fazz said:
sc94597 said:
fazz said:
sc94597 said:
Hm so I want to ask something. If a wii game ever supported 720p would it look bad. It seems when a console doesn't have enough power to support higher resolutions they must degrade other things. So do you think the wii could still produce nice graphics at 720p? This is asking anybody who could answer my question.


Yes, nice graphics according to other Wii games. Don't expect 360-like results.


What about 360 games that aren't too taxing on the 360.

Call of duty 3

If not what about this Call of Duty 2

If it could do both show or tell me what you think would be the limit of what it can do.

View image to see it in the native resolution.


Yeah, those are possible too. Actually, both of them wouldn't be that hard to perform with a bit of optimization. What I mean is, look at Mario Galaxy. Its a quite shader-intensive game and it runs at 60fps without hiccups. It could afford to run at a higher resolution at half the framerate... or probably the same.

But don't expect things like Bioshock (or other games with top of the line visuals) plus 720p without some downgrading. The weakest spot of the Wii's hardware is the size and bandwidth of it's RAM. It has around 1/5 the size and around 1/3 the bandwidth of the 360's.


 I don't see how devs have too much trouble porting multiplatform games if they don't have to be downgraded as much as people leave it to believe. Is it, because nintendo won't let them update the wii to support 720p? I see know reason nintendo would do that. It seems to me that alot of devs,and others underestimate the wii's graphical performance. They make it seem like the gap is so large when it isn't as much as they say. I really think this is an excuse for them to just port low quality ps2 games or casual games that sell millions. If the wii has reached it's limit at 480p I really think they should explore 720p on the wii more. They will have to do this eventually imo to actually push the wii. It also seems weird that people think MP3 , and SMG already pushed the wii. Well thanks for giving me a better understanding of the capabilities of the wii fazz.